Both the bulbs and the foliage are frost-hardy well into sub-zero temperatures, making them well-suited for growing in the ...

Flowers may be fleeting, but with the right preservation techniques, you can enjoy their beauty for months - or even years. Whether you want to keep a sentimental bouquet or create stunning dried ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill Mcgurn, and Kyle Peterson. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images/Bill Clark/Zuma Press/J. Scott Applewhite ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk ... Renowned linguist Robin Flowers’s rhymed translation of the Old Irish is immensely charming in its own way, but I’ve chosen Seamus ...

Flowers – for some, they are overrated, while for others, they are considered one of the best ways to communicate. They’ve been the poet’s companion for centuries, and archives are brimming ...

(Too many critics in the latter.) He used canonical poems to inspire his own. The early poem “Flower-Gathering” is patterned on “Carpe Diem,” a love song from Shakespeare’s “Twelfth ...

Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution? Perhaps ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Octavio Paz admired Lodhi Garden but missed its iconic bougainvilleas. These trees bloom yearly, enchanting Delhi with their ...